Improved scrubber and tender



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASA HALLISON, OF CHARLOTTES/VILLE, INDIANA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,482, dated May 8,1866.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, ASA H. ALLISON, of Charlottesville, in the countyofHaucoek, State of Indiana, have invented an Improved Rub ber Scrubberwith a Tender attached; and I do hereby declare that the 'ollowingis afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference bcing had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in which- Figure l is an elevation With part of thetender removed to show the interior construction. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection through the line or no, Fig. l.

The stock A, made of cast-iron or other suitable material, is made intwo pieces, fitted as shown in Fig. 2. These pieces are held rmlytogether by the screws or bolts with screws and nuts I, clamping closelybetween the jaws ,Y

four sheets ot india-rubber, cutin strips ot' suitable width and roundedupon the bottom convexly, so as to work into inequalities in the surfaceto be scrubbed. These strips are separated by narrow 'strips of tin orother thin substances, to keep the rubber sheets apart. To

this scrubber a handle of convenient length is v attached by the socketG. Over the scrubber there is attached a tender, made of tiu or otherquired in scrubbing. This tender is closed below by a stop-valve, keptclosed by a spring, H, and opened by the lever K, to which a wire isattached, passing along the handle. l

The water is poured into the tender by afunnel-shaped mouth, F.

tached within the body of the tender, as shown, to prevent the waterbeing thrown out by the action of the scrubber.

Having thus fully explained the construction and operation of myimprovements, what I claim as my invention, and seek to secure'byLetters Patent, is-

1. rlhe tender C, with the trough D and stopvalve E, substantially asand for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the tender and scrubber, constructed and arrangedsubstantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ASA H. ALLISON. Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. H. ROOK, WILLIAM E. MoGAR'rY.

suitable material, to contain the Water re-A A trough, D, longer thanthe mouth, is at- I

